Minus_six_(exile) Knowpia

The minus six (Russian: Минус шесть, romanized: minus shest') was a form of exile imposed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, which banned the subject from living in or visiting any of the union's six largest cities as well as border territories.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cities banned edit

Moscow
Petrograd (also known as Leningrad from 1924, now Saint Petersburg)
Kiev (now Kyiv in Ukraine)
Kharkov (now Kharkiv in Ukraine)
Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg)
Tbilisi (now in Georgia)

References edit

^ Badcock, Sarah; Judith Pallot (2018). "Russia and the Soviet Union from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century" (PDF). In Clare Anderson (ed.). A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury. p. 274. doi:10.5040/9781350000704. ISBN 9781350000674.
^ "A Gentleman at Ursinus". Ursinus College. 6 April 2018.
^ Smith, Douglas (2012). Former people: the final days of the Russian aristocracy (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-374-15761-6.

[1] Badcock, Sarah; Judith Pallot (2018). "Russia and the Soviet Union from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century" (PDF). In Clare Anderson (ed.). A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies. Bloomsbury. p. 274. doi:10.5040/9781350000704. ISBN 9781350000674.

[2] "A Gentleman at Ursinus". Ursinus College. 6 April 2018.

[3] Smith, Douglas (2012). Former people: the final days of the Russian aristocracy (First ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-374-15761-6.

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